English housewifry. Exemplified in above four hundred receits, never before printed; giving directions in most parts of cookery; and how to prepare various sorts of soops, made-dishes, pasts, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made-wines, &c. With sculptures for the orderly placing the dishes, and courses; and also bills of fare, for every month in the year. A book necessary for mistresses of families, higher and lower women servants, and confined to things useful, substantial and spelendid, and calculated for the preservation of health, and upon the measures of frugality, being the result of thirty years practice and experience. By Elizabeth Moxon.

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Title English housewifry. Exemplified in above four hundred receits, never before printed; giving directions in most parts of cookery; and how to prepare various sorts of soops, made-dishes, pasts, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made-wines, &c. With sculptures for the orderly placing the dishes, and courses; and also bills of fare, for every month in the year. A book necessary for mistresses of families, higher and lower women servants, and confined to things useful, substantial and spelendid, and calculated for the preservation of health, and upon the measures of frugality, being the result of thirty years practice and experience. By Elizabeth Moxon.
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Signed Author By Elizabeth Moxon.
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Volumes 1
Pagination [4], 209, [23]
Date of Publication 1741
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Imprint Printed by J. Lister, and sold by J. Swale, J. Ogle, and S. Howgate, at Leeds; J. Lord at Wakefield; and the author at Pontefract,
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Location of Printing Leeds GB
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Moxon, Elizabeth. English housewifry. Exemplified in above four hundred receits, never before printed; giving directions in most parts of cookery; and how to prepare various sorts of soops, made-dishes, pasts, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made-wines, &c. With sculptures for the orderly placing the dishes, and courses; and also bills of fare, for every month in the year. A book necessary for mistresses of families, higher and lower women servants, and confined to things useful, substantial and spelendid, and calculated for the preservation of health, and upon the measures of frugality, being the result of thirty years practice and experience. By Elizabeth Moxon.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 23615, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/23615. Accessed 2025-10-14. 

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